Noel Biderman will usually lie if a passenger on an airplane asks him what he does for a living. He'll say he's a lawyer, which is true. Biderman is also a successful entrepreneur who earns more than $5 million a year, but just uttering his firm's name is enough to halt the niceties. Biderman is the cofounder and CEO of Ashley Madison, a website that facilitates extramarital romance and sex. "There are times that I have told people, and that's the end of the conversation." All the attention and money that dating apps like Tinder are attracting has drawn Biderman into opening up some more about the financials at Avid Life Media, the privately held Toronto holding company that owns Ashley Madison, CougarLife and a handful of other love-connection sites. Biderman is out to prove that he can still compete in an age of free hookup apps like Tinder and OkCupid. Tinder, which has logged 600% growth over the past 12 months as of November, has more than 30 million registered users who collectively check out 1.5 billion prospective partners daily-that's 17,000 per second. The app is even cannibalizing revenue from its sister company Match.com (both owned by IAC). Match was up a mere 5% toward the end of 2014. Ashley Madison, in contrast, is still going strong. Tax documents and figures shared by Biderman showed that Avid Life Media grossed $115 million for 2014, up 45% from the $78 million it grossed in 2013, and up nearly threefold since 2010. Pretax profits, says Biderman, will come in at $55 million, which financial analysts say is a typical margin for the industry. Worldwide, the site has had 31 million total users over its lifetime, 6.8 million of whom logged in over the previous 90 days as of late November.
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机译：如果乘坐飞机的乘客问他以谋生为生，诺埃尔·比德曼通常会撒谎。他会说他是律师，这是真的。彼德曼（Biderman）还是一位成功的企业家，年收入超过500万美元，但只要说出自己公司的名字就足以停止工作。 Biderman是Ashley Madison的联合创始人兼首席执行官，Ashley Madison是一个促进婚外恋和性行为的网站。 “有些时候我已经告诉人们了，这就是谈话的结束。”比德曼（Tinder）等约会应用吸引的所有关注和金钱吸引了彼德曼（Biderman）对Avid Life Media的财务状况进行更多了解。AvidLife Media是多伦多私人控股公司，拥有Ashley Madison，CougarLife和一些其他恋爱关系网站。 Biderman证明了自己仍然可以在Tinder和OkCupid这样的免费转播应用程序时代竞争。截至11月，Tinder在过去12个月中实现了600％的增长，拥有超过3000万注册用户，每天集体检查15亿个潜在合作伙伴，即每秒17,000个。该应用程序甚至蚕食了其姊妹公司Match.com（均由IAC拥有）的收入。到2014年年底，比赛的增幅仅为5％。相比之下，阿什利·麦迪逊（Ashley Madison）的表现仍然强劲。 Biderman分享的税务文件和数据显示，Avid Life Media 2014年的收入为1.15亿美元，比2013年的7800万美元增长了45％，是2010年以来的近三倍。Biderman说，税前利润为5500万美元，金融分析师说，这是该行业的典型利润。在全球范围内，该网站在其整个生命周期内共有3100万用户，其中截至11月底的90天内，有680万用户登录。
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